Anyone seeing a picture of the 10ft, 550lb porbeagle shark Graeme Pullen
returned to the water a couple of weeks back — one appeared on the front
page of this newspaper and others have been popping up everywhere since —
would have no trouble understanding the word “enormous”, as in “enormous
fish”.

Indeed, given the shark’s place in the human psyche — those jaws, all those
teeth, all those attacks and amputated limbs — his fish could have been a
fraction of the size and still have been seen as enormous by some,
non-anglers especially.